Neuroscience

The Science Case For Zoning Out: Brain Stem Cells Need Rest Too

Institute in Madrid. "We already knew a lot about fate choice and differentiation, but it was unclear ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2010 - 8:00am

Consciousness: How The Brain Loses And Regains It

but it does.  Yet the search for answers about the brain is ongoing.  Anesthesiologists now rely on ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2013 - 8:00pm

The Origin Of Brain Waves?

activity, called electroencephalography (EEG) signals. But what is it about the structure and function of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2013 - 1:01pm

Hypnotic Suggestion Can Generate Automatic Hallucinations- Study

processing already about 1/10 second after the appearance of a visual target.  Citation: Koivisto M, Kirjanen ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2013 - 9:23am

First Sensor Of Earth's Magnetic Field In An Animal Discovered

discovery of brain cells in pigeons that process information about magnetic fields, but they did not ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2015 - 6:43pm

Medial Temporal Lobe And How New Memories Are Formed

Department of Engineering, at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom The patients were shown about ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2015 - 7:46am

Altruism And The Pathways To Imagination

from doing anything at all, but an imaging study (so use caution about drawing conclusions) helped the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2019 - 3:11pm

Essential Tones Of Music Rooted In Human Speech

musical interval between C and A on a piano keyboard. "In about 70 percent of the speech sounds, ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2007 - 12:30pm

Using MRI And PET To Diagnose Mental Illness

years, we are going to see an explosion in brain research, and we’ll understand so much more about the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2007 - 10:46pm

Counter-Intuitive: Sleep Helps Us By Weakening Brain Connections, Say Researchers

UW-Madison researchers’ highly-debated hypothesis about the role of sleep. They believe that people sleep so ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2008 - 4:01pm